Introduction

Life expectancy data

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/nchs-death-rates-and-life-expectancy-at-birth was downloaded from data.gov.

This dataset contains death rates and life-expectancy statistics from 1900 to 2018. Exploratory analysis was conducted on this dataset.

summary(expectancy)
##       year          race               sex            life_expectancy
##  Min.   :1900   Length:1071        Length:1071        Min.   :29.1   
##  1st Qu.:1929   Class :character   Class :character   1st Qu.:57.1   
##  Median :1959   Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Median :66.8   
##  Mean   :1959                                         Mean   :64.5   
##  3rd Qu.:1989                                         3rd Qu.:73.9   
##  Max.   :2018                                         Max.   :81.4   
##                                                       NA's   :6      
##    death_rate    
##  Min.   : 611.3  
##  1st Qu.:1013.0  
##  Median :1513.7  
##  Mean   :1593.1  
##  3rd Qu.:2057.2  
##  Max.   :3845.7  
##

Expectancy Dataset Sample

Below you will find a widget that you may use to few the contents of the data expectancy dataset. This is the dataset that will be explored later on in this analysis.

Life Expectancy Plot

The plot below shows life expectancy by year for all sexes.

Including Plots

You can also embed plots, for example:

Note that the echo = FALSE parameter was added to the code chunk to prevent printing of the R code that generated the plot.